Angus Stone reinvented his solo output with this psychedelic slow burn. After releasing three albums with his sister Julia—and scoring a global hit with 2010’s “Big Jet Plane”—Angus Stone decided to reinvent his solo output. Adopting the moniker DOPE LEMON, the Sydney native assembled a seasoned band: multi-instrumentalist Rohin Brown (The Walking Who), bassist Rob Calder (Passenger), keyboardist Elliot Hammond (The Delta Riggs), and drummer Matt Johnson, who played on Jeff Buckley’s Grace. Recording mostly in Stone’s farm studio, the ensemble locked into mellow, daydreamy jams that hew closer to Kurt Vile than to the sunny folk pop of his sibling duo. The opening “Marinade” cruises along with murmured spoken word and layered guitar twang, while the droning “Fuck Things Up” adds tinny drum machine and “Won’t Let You Go” coaxes wavering falsetto out of Stone. Many of these songs lock into an entrancing psychedelic flow, with the title track even graduating to a proper raga thanks to sitar, bells, and hand drums. The reinvention proved to be a success: Stone landed two singles from this album in triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2016 poll, and “Marinade” remains the signature DOPE LEMON track. It also proved that he could explore beyond the framework of a mannered two-piece and lead a shape-shifting band of his own. “Each album is like peering through a window into a house with different rooms filled with magical ornaments and paintings,” Stone told Apple Music in 2025. “Each window marks a chapter as an album of DOPE LEMON.”